Lodovico Perotti

Lodovico Perotti (2 January 1864-28 July 1917) was a Lieutenant-General of the Royal Italian Army who served as a general of Italy during World War I. Perotti was killed in action in the Battle of Montebelluna.

Biography
Lodovico Perotti was born on 2 January 1864 in Padua, Italy. Perotti was a student at the Mantua Military Academy before he was commissioned into the Royal Italian Army in 1887. Perotti rose in the ranks of the army while he was present at officers' schools in the German Empire and France, and he became a Colonel in 1900. Perotti would rise to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1915 at the start of World War I and be given command of an army on the front line in northeastern Italy, where he fought in repeated battles against Austria-Hungary and Germany. In 1917, Perotti was defeaed by the Germans at the Battle of Montebelluna with heavy losses, and Perotti was shot in the back by German infantry while he attempted to flee the battlefield on his horse. Perotti died on the scene, one of the highest-ranking Italian generals killed in the war.